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Video Capturing Guide at Ars Technica

Deffexor writes "For those of you who read Ars Technica, but do not visit our forum, we have an active Audio/Visual Club where we talk shop about everything ranging from TVs to Stereos to Speakers to Videocards and everything in between. Lately, there has been a lot of interest in capturing broadcast television and converting old VHS home movies to a more timeless digital format, such as VCD, SVCD, and DVD. As more and more people become interested, it becomes increasingly difficult to educate everyone on how to do this properly. Tapping the collective consciousness of the Ars A/V forum, we bring you the 1st part of the Ars Technica Guide to Video Capturing, Cleaning, and Compression."

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  1. hmm... by e8johan · · Score: 2, Funny

    We bring you the 1st part of the Ars Technica Guide to p0rn^H^H^H^HVideo Capturing, Cleaning, and Compression.

  2. timeless? by new+death+barbie · · Score: 4, Funny
    Lately, there has been a lot of interest in capturing broadcast television and converting old VHS home movies to a more timeless digital format, such as VCD, SVCD, and DVD.


    Timeless? Hardly. If the media lasts 50 years, the technology certainly won't. The answer: convert all your old home videos to microfilm. It' s the way of the future.

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    1. Re:timeless? by nolife · · Score: 3, Funny

      Damn, I just did all mine in Microfiche. I was getting pretty good at moving the slide around to achieve 29.975 fps..

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  3. in between... by Lorgalis · · Score: 1, Funny

    where we talk shop about everything ranging from TVs to Stereos to Speakers to Videocards and everything in between

    in between those things??
    That would be cables...

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  4. Re:Yet another commercial by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Hey, we're the guys from Ars Technica, and we thought that you would all love to see this on our site."

    "Oh, by the way, we've just installed some new servers and we'd like to test them for load balancing and, coincidentally, we're about to be audited to see what kind of audience we have and to work out how much we can charge for ads and stuff, so why not try slashdotting our servers right now? It'll save the techies an afternoon of testing so they can go to the movies instead and it'll keep the suits happy too. Yay for slashvertising!"

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